The M. P. Birla Planetarium started functioning from September 29, 1962 as an educational, scientific and research institution and was formally inaugurated on July 2, 1963 by the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
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The Virtual Observatory-India (VOI) project seeks to bring together astronomers and software developers, with experience in handling large volumes of data, to contribute substantially to the international VO effort, and to make accessible to astronome
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The Nehru Planetarium, commissioned on 3rd March, 1977 has grown into a Centre for scientific study of astronomy and for meeting of scientists and scholars for discussions and lectures, arranged periodically on various stellar and Astronomical even
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